Catch Adaptive

Catch Adaptive is a Simple, Clean and Bold Full Width Responsive WordPress Theme based on Catch Base Theme. Built on HTML5, CSS3, Masonry and Theme Customizer for real time customization, it comes with a whole set of interesting and rich features which makes this theme highly customizable and flexible. Make your beautiful yet professional website in no time. This theme is translation ready. Check out Support Forum at https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/catch-adaptive-free/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-adaptive/

Additional CSS Options: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need

Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text

Featured Content: Option to enable/disable featured content on Homepage/Frontpage or entire site, option to select Featured Content layout from 3 columns and 4 columns, option to Enable Sliding Effect, option to highlight your Featured pages as Featured Content, option to move featured content position above footer and option to change background for featured content

Featured Slider : Option to enable/disable featured content on Homepage/FrontPage or entire site , option to select Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length of slides and option to highlight your featured pages in slider

Featured Content: Additional 3 featured content types, which makes a total of 4 featured content types: i. Featured Post Content, ii. Featured Page Content, iii. Featured Category Content and iv. Featured Image Content

Featured Slider Content Options: Additional 3 featured slider content types, which makes a total of 4 featured slider content types: i. Featured Post Slider Content, ii. Featured Page Slider , iii. Featured Category Slider and iv. Featured Image Slider

Social Links: Additional option to add upto 10 custom social icons and links

Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes/ and make sure that you do not already have a catch adaptive folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Catch Adaptive

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Slider Content. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

Image Sizes :

Featured Content Width: 410px Height: 321px

Featured Slider Width: 1680px Height: 720px

Featured Image: Excerpt Featured Image Width: 860px Height: 484px

Featured Image: No Sidebar, Full Width Featured Image Width: 1200px Height: 484px

If you have just changed your theme then you need to regenerate image thumbnail for post published before activating this theme. You can simply install Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin. Then Regenerate Thumbnails through “Tools => Regen. Thumbnails” in your WordPress Dashboard.

Catch Adaptive currently has 4 widget areas areas that are 1. Primary Sidebar, 2. Footer Area One, 3. Footer Area Two and 4. Footer Area Three. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Select Menu Locations You can assign your custom menu in 2 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations” Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu

Note: For WordPress version less than 4.3, if you do not see Navigation Option in “Appearance => Customize”, it will mean you have not created any menu. Go to “Appearance => Menus” to create menu first.

Custom Header Image is different from site logo. It’s a large global image in the header to obtain a much more personalized look and feel. To add header image, you need to go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Image”. Here, you can add/change/hide Header Image, select option to Enable Featured Header Image on, Position, Size and add in links and alt tag as per your website need.

Options to Enable Header Featured Image

When you are in “Appearance => Customize =>; Header Image”, you will see option “Enable Featured Header Image on”. There are 7 options, which gives you flexibility to add Header Image as per your website need.

Option 1: Homepage/Frontpage This option will show header image in Homepage/Frontpage only.

Option 2: Excluding Homepage This option will show header image throughout the site, excluding Homepage.

Option 3: Excluding Homepage, Page/Post Featured Image This option will show header image throughout the site excluding Homepage. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Option 4: Entire Site This option will show header image throughout the site.

Option 5: Entire Site, Page/Post Featured Image This option will show header image throughout the site. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Option 6: Page and Post This option will show Header Image in Page and Post only. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Default Layout Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Default Layout” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Catch Adaptive Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

Archive Content Layout Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our site archive layout.

Single Page/Post Image Layout Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “Catch Adaptive Options => Single Page/Post Image Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

How to edit individual posts/pages layout? This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post

There you can find Catch Adaptive Options

Then click onLayout Options

You select required option under”Default”

Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to select optional sidebar for individual Page/Post? This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post

There you can find Catch Adaptive Options

Then click on Select Sidebar

You can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Select Sidebar”

Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to enable/disable Header Featured Image for individual Page/Post? This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post

There you can find Catch Adaptive Options

Then click on Header Featured Image Options

You can select option “Enable or Disbale”

Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to select Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual Page/Post? This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

Note:Make sure the number of sliders are greater than the Featured Content Layout(greater than 3 for 3 columns and greater than 4 for 4 columns) for Sliding Effect to be enabled even after checking “Check to Enable Sliding Effect” option.

Under “Headline for Featured Content”, you can change the text as needed or Leave field empty if you want to remove Headline

Under “Sub-headline for Featured Content”, you can change the text as needed or Leave field empty if you want to remove Sub-headline

Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:Make sure the number of sliders are greater than the Featured Content Layout(greater than 3 for 3 columns and greater than 4 for 4 columns) for Sliding Effect to be enabled even after checking “Check to Enable Sliding Effect” option.

Check option, “Check to Enable Title” to Enable Featured Content Title

Then under Display Content, you can select “Show Excerpt, Show Full Content or Hide Content” to display excerpt as content, whole content as content or not display content respectively, as per you need

How to enable Featured Page Slider?# Features page Slider Content is created to highlight your Page in the Slider Content. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Page Slider.

Note: True: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start as soon as two slider are available. Slide may display in random, as image is fetch. Wait: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start only after all images are available.

Catch Adaptive has custom social icons for various social networking sites. You can activate the social icons you want by adding in your social profile links through “Appearance => Customize => Social Links => Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

For externally hosted videos (for example a YouTube or Vimeo video), you can directly paste the link of your video page into the content editor. You do not necessarily have to paste the embed code in the content. WordPress will automatically embed the video from the link.

We have moved Webmaster Tools to our plugin Catch Web Tools for better management and data access. So, just install Catch Web Tools plugin and activate “Webmaster Tools” from Catch Web Tools plugin dashboard. You can verify your site on Google, Yahoo and Bing by adding in the IDs in the respective boxes through “Catch Web Tools => Webmaster Tools” in your WordPress Dashboard. Further, you can add in the Google Analytic. Adding scripts in Header and Footer does not require you to edit codes through Webmaster Tools.

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